Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic…

I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and…

— Brenda Ueland

The trouble with progress is that it tends to happen slowly and quietly. It's not necessarily going to shout about itself, or make the…

— Aaron Koblin

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly,…

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

“Knowledge comes slowly, and when it comes, it is often at great personal expense.”

— Paul Auster

'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

— Brenda Ueland

“Every time,” he said quietly. “Every time I think I’m missing a piece of me, you give it back.”

— Cassandra Clare

“Why, you are a man of heart!" "Sometimes," replied Phileas Fogg, quietly. "When I have the time.”

— Jules Verne

You said to us once before," said Hermione quietly, "that there was time to turn back if we wanted to. We've had time, haven't…

— Anonymous

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

— Pope Francis

Dawn comes slowly but dusk is rapid.

— Alice B. Toklas

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

— Friedrich Schiller

When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work.

— Ross Douthat

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line…

— Veronica Roth

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

— Madeleine L'Engle